{"id":13460,"date":"2016-02-09T12:03:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13460"},"modified":"2016-02-09T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:03:40","slug":"how-to-unlearn-misspellings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/09\/how-to-unlearn-misspellings\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Unlearn Misspellings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/16241\">Adam C. Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/16241\">\n<p>If you&rsquo;re in Pages, TextEdit, Nisus Writer Pro, BBEdit, or the like, you can Control-click the word, which will no longer have that red underline, and choose Unlearn Spelling to reverse your action. But if you&rsquo;re in Safari, Google Chrome, or any other app that supports spell checking without implementing it fully, no Unlearn Spelling command is available.<\/p>\n<p>The clumsy solution is to copy the offending word, paste it into TextEdit or a similar app, Control-click it there, and choose Unlearn Spelling from the pop-up menu. Effective, but awkward, particularly if you&rsquo;ve ended up with a number of misspelled words in your dictionary over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s an alternative solution &mdash; you can edit your list of learned words directly, since it&rsquo;s just a text file. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam C. Engst: If you&rsquo;re in Pages, TextEdit, Nisus Writer Pro, BBEdit, or the like, you can Control-click the word, which will no longer have that red underline, and choose Unlearn Spelling to reverse your action. But if you&rsquo;re in Safari, Google Chrome, or any other app that supports spell checking without implementing it fully, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,1199],"class_list":["post-13460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-11"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13461,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13460\/revisions\/13461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}